Standard · version 1.0

Verification Integrity Standard

A verification platform is only worth trusting if no one can pay to change what it says. These eight clauses codify that, and each one points at public evidence rather than a promise. Any platform may adopt the standard and self-attest; the seal is a claim checkable at the evidence URLs, not a certification.

VIS-1 · Never for sale
No party may pay to add, remove, soften or reorder a fact on a receipt. Corrections are free, public and hash-logged.
VIS-2 · Facts, not verdicts
Receipts print what official sources printed, with date, source and hash. They carry no score, risk label, clearance or inferred relationship.
VIS-3 · Not read is said
A source that did not answer is named as not read. Absence of a row is never presented as absence of a record when the source was not read.
VIS-4 · Keyed linkage only
Identifiers are linked only where one official row prints both. Nothing is joined by name similarity, address, ownership or co-occurrence.
VIS-5 · Published misses
Sources that cannot be read, and why, are published. Missed or stale reads are logged where the public can see them.
VIS-6 · Hash-chained archive
Daily archives are hash-chained and anchored with OpenTimestamps; any receipt can be re-verified from its SHA-256.
VIS-7 · Custody stated
Rescued, mirrored or third-party-hosted copies of official data state their custody chain and point to the originating publisher's current record.
VIS-8 · Reproducible
Every receipt names its method version; a reader can repeat every check at the publisher's own lookup.

Evidence for this platform

corrections public log: https://alphacovenantholdings.com/api/corrections
archive hash index: https://alphacovenantholdings.com/api/public-record/archive-hash
published misses: https://alphacovenantholdings.com/unanswered
channels not readable: https://alphacovenantholdings.com/api/public-record/channels
launch gate: https://alphacovenantholdings.com/launch-check
receipt registry: https://alphacovenantholdings.com/api/receipts
spec: https://alphacovenantholdings.com/api/spec/receipt/v1

Self-attestation 2026-10-02 · clauses met VIS-1, VIS-2, VIS-3, VIS-4, VIS-5, VIS-6, VIS-7, VIS-8 · receipts in registry 94 · machine-readable at /.well-known/verification-integrity.json

Adopt it

Any platform may adopt the standard by publishing a self-attestation at /.well-known/verification-integrity.json listing the clauses it meets with evidence URLs, and may display the seal for the clauses it meets. The seal is a claim by the displayer, checkable at the evidence URLs; it is not a certification by Alpha Covenant.

<a href="https://alphacovenantholdings.com/standard"><img src="https://alphacovenantholdings.com/api/standard/vis/v1/seal.svg" alt="Verification Integrity Standard v1 — self-attested" width="260" height="64"></a>

Who has attested

Implementer	Clauses claimed	Attestation	Listed
Alpha Covenant Holdings (reference implementation)	VIS-1 … VIS-8	well-known	2026-06-01

No third-party implementer is listed yet.

Publish /.well-known/verification-integrity.json on your domain (schema: https://alphacovenantholdings.com/api/standard/vis/v1/self-attestation.schema.json), run https://alphacovenantholdings.com/api/standard/vis/v1/check?domain=yourdomain, then ask on https://alphacovenantholdings.com/pilot; a person lists the domain after the check passes. Listing repeats what your attestation says; it certifies nothing.